PB Cohen Creations

I actually hate those blog posts that say things like "Sorry, internet readers, that I haven't been writing much lately." So I won't do that. Basically, I've been making jewelry for many years, and set up a web site a couple of years ago. Things happened so I stopped paying attention to the web site, but some of the old posts are still interesting, so I'll keep them. I plan to use this (redesigned) space to talk about art, and show off what I'm making. That last will go a bit slowly, since I never did quite master the skill of taking photographs of small, shiny things. I'm working on it.

While working on the new design, I discovered that these days many artists have several web sites. I wonder if that's because they 1) paid somebody for a fancy, pretty "business card" site that they never want to get rid of. But then they 2) started an Etsy shop, or some other online marketplace site. And then, when blogs got more popular they started one of those, but because they didn't have enough computer knowledge, they 3) set one up on a free blogging site. And then, because the free blogging sites don't usually offer free photo hosting, they 4) started up a free Flickr site. That's a lot of web sites! Plus, these days there are more marketplaces out there than just Etsy.

Too much to keep track of, in my mind. I'm lucky enough to have enough computer knowledge to do everything myself (although I'll probably set up an Etsy shop soon). But even so, this redesign is more than enough for me. I can't imagine wanting to deal with more than two sites myself.

To those of you who have a lot of sites: Do you find it hard to keep track of it all? Wouldn't you rather spend your time making shiny things? Or does tending the web sites offer a productive break?